The track meets on Fri and Sat inspired me to a fine workout this afternoon on the trails. Did my usual weekly 2 minutes on and 1 minute off workout around lake overstreet, but I actually worked it down to 6:15 mile pace for the last two intervals - not bad for me. Now back to the fun stuff. Travis got his annual opportunity to race an open 800 on Saturday afternoon. 'Twas breezy and warm, but he had a plan and stuck to it and came through with a 4-second PR of 2:01.51. He cruised through the 400 at 59 and then put his head down and hammered the next 100, floated the back stretch, and then hung on for dear life to close in 62. Coach was very pleased, Trav was satisfied (he had visions of 2 flat), and I was duly impressed. Even more impressive was his 4X400 leg later in the evening. He hasn't raced a 4X4 since 8th grade. He ran third leg and was able to maintain 4th place for the team with a 52.4 split. Our anchor dropped a 50.6 to bring us to 2nd with a 3:29 - not too shabby. Travis races the 1600 tomorrow night in his best opportunity of the year to go sub 4:30. After tomorrow, we have easy district and region meets prior to the challenge of the state meet on Apr 27 - looking more and more like he will need to triple in the 4X800, 1600 and 3200. |